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Opinion: Canada should block a patent waiver for COVID vaccines Special to Financial Post © Provided by Financial Post A nurse prepares to administer the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine under the COVAX scheme against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Eka Kotebe General Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Global Affairs Canada still has not come to a decision on whether to support an intellectual property rights waiver for COVID-19 vaccines. Canada, along with the U.S., EU, U.K., Switzerland, Japan, Norway, Australia and Brazil, have all delayed deciding on the “TRIPS w...

US to Share its AstraZeneca Vaccine Supply with the World 1 hour ago In this April 21, 2021, file photo, President Joe Biden speaks about COVID-19 vaccinations at the White House, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:05:39 0:00 Pop-out player The United States says it will share its entire supply of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine with other nations. A White House statement said up to 60 million doses of the vaccine are expected to be available for export in the coming months. The AstraZeneca vaccine is widely used around th...

One Year On, Where Does COVAX Stand? 22/04/2021 A nurse prepares to administer the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine under the COVAX scheme at Eka Kotebe General Hospital in Addis Ababa, March 13, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Tiksa Negeri The World Health Organisation (WHO) and global vaccine charities launched the COVAX programme last April to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to some of the world’s poorest people. The scheme, relied on by dozens of poorer countries, has faced setbacks: production glitches, a lack of support from wealthy nations and a recent move by India, the biggest vaccine manuf...

  A man receives the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine under the COVAX scheme against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Eka Kotebe General Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 13, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] The World Health Organization is helping African countries to improve their regulatory processes for approving vaccines and other drugs. In countering the COVID-19 pandemic, representatives of regulatory agencies from Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania participated in an event on Friday in which experts from the WHO shared insights on the assessments for three of the vaccines...

COVAX has shipped over 36m doses of COVID-19 vaccine to 86 countries: spokesman Xinhua | Updated: 2021-04-06 11:41 Share   A nurse prepares to administer the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine under the COVAX scheme against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Eka Kotebe General Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 13, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] UNITED NATIONS - COVAX, a World Health Organization-led initiative aimed at ensuring equal access to COVID-19 vaccines by various countries, has so far shipped more than 36 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to 86 c...